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Summer campers posing with binoculars with a nuthatch creeping down the trunk of a tree behind them.

Crow’s Nest Camp 2024 – Week Two

July 17, 2024

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. The 3rd and 4th graders were an energetic bunch at camp during a particularly hot week this summer (of which…

Summer campers trying out homemade rafts on French Creek

Crow’s Nest Camp 2024 – Week One

July 12, 2024

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Our first week of camp was a success despite the heat. It’s always good to spend time in the creek…

People lowering a hinged post of a Kestrel nesting box

Kestrel Conservation

June 28, 2024

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager and Claudia Winters, Natural Lands Assistant Manager Claudia Winters, Assistant Manager for Sadsbury Woods, Willisbrook, and Green Hills Preserves, recently…

Ball-shaped clusters of pink flowers of milkweed.

Crow’s Nest: Milkweed season

June 18, 2024

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. The perfection of the flower clusters of milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) belies its name that has the word “weed” in it.…

Kestrel chicks looking up inside a nesting box.

Crow’s Nest: Got Kestrels?

June 7, 2024

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. We are so very excited to announce the arrival of some babies at Crow’s Nest! For the first time in…

A group of volunteers holding pruners and clippers in front of the hedgerow they just cleared.

Crow’s Nest: Another hedgerow cleared

June 6, 2024

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Force of Nature and other volunteers joined staff and interns this week clearing a hedgerow along a preserve boundary, top…

Owen J. Roberts JROTC students with rakes and shovels moving gravel at Crow's Nest's Warwick Woods

Crow’s Nest: JROTC cleans up—again!

June 5, 2024

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Over the last few years the Owen J. Roberts Junior Reserve Officers Training Program has extended a hand to clean…

People contra dancing in a barn with twinkling lights above.

Crow’s Nest: Contra Dance returns!

May 28, 2024

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. After a five year hiatus (wow, pause to think about that!) the local Birdsboro Contra Dance returns to the Crow’s…

Finished planting bed with wildflowers mulched

Crow’s Nest: From Wreck to Weald

May 6, 2024

By Devon Funt, Crow’s Nest Intern, and Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. Following the demolition of the defunct General Store at the former Warwick Woods Campground,…

Outside view of historic barn at Crow's Nest Preserve showing masonry wall and wood shingle roof.

Crow’s Nest: The Unfamiliar Familiar

April 2, 2024

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager. While we wait a little longer for spring to arrive (it’s coming!) here’s a look any something familiar, but in…